Vernacular Name
Chinese potato, coleus, coleus potato, country potato, fabirama, fra-fra potato, fra-fra-salanga, hausa potato

Category
Roots and Tubers

Use

Rank	Class
3	Food and Beverages
	Pharmaceutical
	Cosmetics
	Health and Functional Products
	Fodder/Animal feed
	Fibre, Fuel and Building
	Ornamental
	Environmental
	Other

1. Very relevant
5. Not very relevant

Place of Origin
Native to West Africa.

Actual Distribution
Now grown especially in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Places and Types of Utilization
It ist used as a leaf vegetable and a tuber vegetable.

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